Flights of Angels Quotes

“He understood finally that there were no absolute triumphs in any battle worth the blood, because such a fight always took something away before it bestowed victory’s thorny crown.”
― Cindy Brandner, Flights of Angels

“The morning was shrouded in mist. Crouched in a ditch just northeast of Noah Murray’s farm, David Kendall, secret agent, thought the espionage business was nowhere near as glamorous as Hollywood and spy novels made it out to be. In fact, it was fucking miserable most times, especially when you had slept the night in a ditch and been wakened by an inquisitive sheep, blaaa-ting in your ear just as the dawn broke. Then you had to piss in a bottle because you couldn’t afford to venture out of said ditch. All in all, not terribly glamorous.”
― Cindy Brandner, Flights of Angels

“When I queried the universe as to whether there was an invisible sign out there that had denoted me as a flophouse for the world’s strays, she asked me if I considered her such. She has not learned the art of coyness, therefore I knew it was an honest question and so I answered it in kind. “No, you are not a stray, Pamela. You are my friend.” “Thank you,” she said back to me, with the grave look that penetrates right through to my soul. What I did not add was that it is myself who is the stray, and that someday she will be old enough to know that. For now I am grateful for her ignorance.”
― Cindy Brandner, Flights of Angels